Mac · iPad · iPhone · One licence

The quickest way to check a master.

Open an ADM BWF or an IAMF file and hear it properly — through your rig, your headphones, or an iPhone on the train. The same app on every one, for £35.

Start the 14-day trial → Buy — £35
macOS — out today iPhone & iPad — September Windows — October
ADM BWFEBU ADMIAMFEclipsa AudioOSLS
Mac, iPad and iPhone

Three devices, the same app, the same playback, the same sound. From the studio to on the go.

Orbit Lite on macOS on a large studio screen, playing an IAMF file out to a 7.1.4 rig
macOS 14+ · Apple Silicon
Orbit Lite on iPad, held in both hands by a window, showing a spatial waveform and channel meters
iPadOS 17+ · landscape
Orbit Lite on iPhone, resting on a desk, showing a spatial waveform and channel meters
iOS 17+ · landscape
On Mac

Orbit Lite runs Apple Spatial Audio itself, as its own output. You get the Music and Movie switch in the app, and personalisation controls alongside it — so you can A/B the two without leaving the session.

On iPhone & iPad

The same output feeds straight into iOS’s own Spatial Audio. There is no Music or Movie switch to set, and personalisation follows whatever your device is already configured to use — which is what your listeners will hear anyway.

Availability

macOS is out today. iPhone and iPad follow in September, and Windows in October. One licence covers Mac, iPad and iPhone, so buying now gets you every Apple platform as it ships.

Everything else
The engineThe layoutsThe formatsThe routing
Inside Orbit Lite

Everything you need to review a master.

Not a mixing tool, and not trying to be. It opens the file, shows you what is in it, and plays it back exactly as it is.

Metering

Every channel, at a glance

See a problem before you have to go hunting for it.

A meter bridge that grows with your layout, up to 24 channels — in whatever colours you want to look at all day.

Up to 24 channelsFollows your layoutYour colours
Orbit Lite meter bridge showing all twelve channels of a 7.1.4 layout in green
The same 7.1.4 meter bridge rendered in blue, showing the meter colour is configurable
Same bridge, your colours.
ADM masters

Every version, inside one file

Check the alternates without chasing a second deliverable.

Open an ADM BWF and switch programme, language and audio description straight from the file.

ProgrammesLanguagesAudio description
Orbit Lite’s Content popover on an EBU ADM file — programme switching between Sports Mix and International, an English commentary dialogue track, and an audio description toggle
IAMF & Eclipsa

v1, v1.1 and v2 — with or without picture

Hear what your listeners will hear, locked to the cut.

Play IAMF and Eclipsa across all three versions, switch mix presentations, and drop in an MP4 to run picture in sync at up to 4K.

v1 · v1.1 · v2Mix presentationsVideo in sync
Monitoring

Four ways to listen, one render

What you hear on headphones is what the rig is doing.

Speakers, head-tracked binaural on the Orbit Studio HRTF, Apple Spatial Audio or a stereo fold-down — every one off the same speaker feeds.

MultichannelOrbit Studio HRTFApple SpatialStereo
Binaural monitoring in Orbit Lite — stereo meters with a limiter indicator, head tracking and recenter controls, and the output selector offering Binaural, Multichannel, Stereo and Apple Spatial
Speaker test & routing

Test the rig, fast

Catch a swapped pair or a dead top in seconds — not halfway through a session.

Send each channel to the output it belongs on, then fire pink noise at one speaker at a time and listen for which one answers.

Routing matrixPer-speaker testAny interface
Orbit Lite speaker test — pink noise on the centre speaker, with the routing matrix above and a warning listing channels not routed to any output
Speaker layouts

Describe your room once

Your room, not the nearest preset.

Build any layout up to 24 channels in OSLS, our open speaker-layout format, and Orbit Lite renders to it properly instead of folding it into something close enough. osls.io →

Fully customUp to 24 channelsOpen format
The OSLS browser designer — a 7.1.4 layout on a sphere with labelled speakers and their positions listed alongside

The free OSLS designer at osls.io.

  1. 01 Design Lay your room out in the free browser designer.
  2. 02 Download Export a .osls file describing the rig.
  3. 03 Import Open it in Orbit Lite — Mac, iPad or iPhone.
  4. 04 Route Send each speaker to the right output.
  5. 05 Play Load a master and hear it on your rig.
What it opens

Bring it whatever you have.

ADM BWF
EBU broadcast ADMBeds & objectsProgramme · language · audio description
IAMF
v1 · v1.1 · v2Eclipsa AudioMix presentations
Video
IAMF in MP4Locked to pictureUp to 4K
Layouts
OSLSUp to 24 channelsFully custom
Lite or Orbit

Lite plays. Orbit inspects.

Same engine, same fidelity. Lite plays the master; Orbit measures it.

Choose Lite £35

You need to open a master, check it over and hear it properly — at the desk, on a rig, or on the move.

Buy Lite — £35
Choose Orbit £99

You need to measure and sign it off — loudness to BS.1770-5, object inspection, PDF reports and binaural export.

See Orbit — £99
Orbit adds
  • Loudness metering (BS.1770-5)
  • Object soloing & inspection
  • 3D object view
  • Activity grid
  • Multichannel waveform
  • Custom SOFA / HRTF
  • PDF reports
  • Binaural WAV export
  • IAMF export (Pro)
Only in Lite

iPhone, iPad and Windows. Orbit is macOS only.

Max outputs

Lite 24 channels Orbit 64 channels

Need loudness metering, object inspection, PDF reports or IAMF export?

Explore Orbit See Orbit Pro
One price

£35. Both platforms.

Five activations — use them on any mix of Macs, iPads and iPhones. It is the same licence either way, and on iPhone and iPad it is also sold in the app as Orbit Lite Duo.

iPhone and iPad only? Orbit Lite for iOS will be £14.99 — the same app, every iPhone and iPad on your account, not for Mac. It is not on the App Store yet; Lite Duo below covers the Mac today and every iPhone and iPad on your account when it lands.

Orbit Lite
One-time purchase
£35 inc. VAT
  • Mac, iPad and iPhone — one licence covers all three
  • Five activations, in any combination of devices
  • ADM BWF masters, IAMF and Eclipsa
  • Video in sync, up to 4K
  • Speaker test, routing matrix and 24-channel metering
  • Custom speaker layouts via OSLS
  • Free updates within the major version
Buy — £35 Or start a 14-day trial
Minimum system requirements

One licence covers every platform and activates on any five devices at once, so the requirements below are listed per device. They are floors — what the device needs, not what Lite uses. Its own footprint is a small fraction of them.

Mac

macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later · Apple Silicon · 8 GB RAM · 1 GB free

Intel Macs are not supported. Every Apple Silicon Mac clears the memory figure — it is what the Mac needs, not what Lite takes.

iPhone & iPad

iOS or iPadOS 17 or later

We advise against Low Power Mode — it throttles the processing Lite relies on for glitch-free playback. Multichannel playback through a class-compliant audio interface needs an iPhone with USB-C.

Windows

Not confirmed yet

We expect Windows 10 or later, 64-bit, and will confirm the requirements before release.

Activations

Five devices per licence, in any combination

A Mac and an iPhone, an iPad and two Macs — any mix you like, and you can change your mind. Sign out on a device whenever you like and its activation frees up straight away, ready to use somewhere else.

Licence & internet
Free trial
A continuous internet connection, for as long as the trial runs.
One-time licence
Works offline. It only has to reach us once every 30 days to stay active.
Subscription
Coming soon. A constant connection — the licence refreshes every 24 hours.

Immersive masters, wherever you work.

Fourteen days, free, on both platforms. No card needed.

Start the 14-day trial → Buy — £35
macOS Out today Apple Silicon · macOS 14+ iPhone September iOS 17+ iPad September iPadOS 17+ · landscape Windows October Windows 11